One listen for this one, but there was a pause toward the end as I became uncertain if I heard something or imagined it, and so I felt compelled to check.

I tried to get a bit more loose with what I was writing and I tried not to overthink. For the most part I did okay; what I wrote covers the song well enough. I think, however, the issue that I had here was that what I was trying to get across lacked the necessary articulation.

ACE’s “Li Garte Prison Camp” (“リ・ガート収容所”) is from the soundtrack for Xenoblade 3 aka Xenoblade Chronicles 3, Xenoblade 3 Original Soundtrack.

I hope you enjoy.

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A roll into a drone, and percussion thumps in the background whilst guitar leads into the next roll. The sound fills out and keys seem to guide, or at least take a sense of lead. The music shifts in steps and reveals within itself a melancholic drawing, and maybe it has something to do with giving up. Maybe.

The drama rises and falls as the sounds seem to push down, but in there is a conviction and the conviction holds on. As a new lead takes place and things stretch out whilst remaining firm and directed the heaviness presses down. The rigidity remains, but still something holds on and keeps going.

The sounds have shifted once more and there is less driving in the beat, and perhaps this is where a question is being asked, and if so it is spreading through the space. It is challenging the what befell the space.

A small, paused moment that fills out before the keys flick into what came earlier, and the sounds roll along, rigid in their smoothness. Though they keep moving at the same speed as before, it seems as though the sounds are slowing down, and they fade away before anything else happens, and the song ends.